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Happiness is…a focused mind

By Jenifer Goodwin for Business Week If you want to be happy, try to stay focused. New research shows that when people's minds drifted from the task or activity at hand, they reported being less happy than when they were fully engaged in whatever they were...

12 November, 2010

Now here’s a great happinss quote…

Optimist: someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it's a cha-cha. - Robert Brault So go and dance your way to happiness! ...

12 November, 2010

10 common happiness mistakes

by Gretchen Rubin of the Happiness Project This Wednesday: 10 common happiness mistakes. To delay to do something important until you have some _ã–free time,_㝠because you may never have any free time To retreat into isolation when you_ã_re...

11 November, 2010

Applications of positive psychology…teaching our kids for happiness

by Cian Traynor for the Irish Times BEFORE MARTIN Seligman became a happiness guru, he spent years studying why humans and animals would give up in apparently hopeless situations. Seligman himself wasn_ã_t known for looking on the bright side. By the psychologist_ã_s own account, he was...

11 November, 2010

Happiness news…

Kirsty Needham writes in the Sydney Morning Herald about how "Shorter working week key to happiness and jobs" To read more JUST CLICK HERE In the Huffington Post, Roya Rad asks "What is the difference between attachment, love, peace, and happiness?" To read more CLICK HERE And in Psychology...

10 November, 2010

Happiness is…managing weaknesses and putting strengths to work

Putting your strengths to work by Jeremy McCarthy for Positive Psychology News Daily OK, so you_ã_ve taken the VIA Survey to determine your character strengths. And after reading one (or several) of Tom Rath_ã_s books on strengths and leadership, you_ã_ve taken the Strengthsfinder 2.0 test to...

10 November, 2010

Hot off the press…what’s new in the positive psychology research (or the science of happiness)

The discipline of positive psychology is advancing at an incredible rate and the good thing is that it means we're rapidly understanding more about what happiness is and how we can have more happiness in our lives! We're also understanding more and more that happiness...

09 November, 2010

Happiness is in…participant experiences

by Joe Robinson for the Huffington Post Fifty percent of your happiness is genetic. Sorry, you can't do much about that. Another 10 percent comes from your circumstances (geography, family, health). So that leaves you with 40 percent of your potential happiness that you can actually...

09 November, 2010

Happiness includes many positive emotions, like elevation, and this is certainly elevating!

Within the positive psychology community many have a love-hate relationship with happiness. By that, I mean that there are some positive psychologists who're concerned that the word happiness is too vague and means too many things to too many different people. Some of these academics...

09 November, 2010

Is happiness at work having a cool office?

I've writtem much about happiness at work before but mostly (for obvious reasons) my focus has been on psychological and interpersonal variables. That is, I typically look at happiness at work from the perspective of the individual, the team or sometimes the organisation...

09 November, 2010